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IMPROVED SOLE-EDGE FINISBING TOOL.

FRANZ M. SClIMI'IlT, OF JAMAICA PLAINS, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent 'Na 60,563, dated .December 18, 1866.

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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Be it known that I, FRANZ Ml SCHMITT, of Jamaica Plains, in the county of Norfolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful cr Improved Sole-Edge Finishing Tool; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, oi' Which- I i Figure 1 is a side elevation; and

y Figure 2 an edge view of it. Figure 3, a section of it taken longitudinally through the adjustable finishing block.

Figurefl is a section of it taken transversely of such finishing block. In the said drawings, A denotes if) blrick of metal formed with polishing edges, ff', and finishing projections,

Vc d, or the same and one or more recesses, e, like those of ordinary edge-polishers. v`'lhe said block A is inserted use of the tool.

in and so as to be capable of sliding longitudinally within a carrier, B, which, where its upper end projects beyond the block, is bevelled, as shown at g and 7L. A clamp-screw, D, screws into the carrier and against the side of the block A, and serves to iik such block in position in the said carrierpviz, when any one of its finishers, c d e, is arranged at the proper distance from either part, g 7L. A shank, a, projects from the carrier B into a handle, C, which has a ferrule, b, xed upon its upper part in order to prevent it from being split. 'The drawings represent the projection c7, and that portion of the edge f which is between it and the part, g, to be in position to constitute with such part, g, an edge-finishing tool. The distance of the part d from the part g may be varied by loosening the screw l), and subsequently moving the block A within the carrier B, so as toadjust the part d to the required distance from `the part g, after which the clamp-screw should be turned up against the,

block. By withdrawing the block from the carrier, reversing the former and re-inserting it within the carrier, the iinisher c and the edge f may be used with either of the parts g h, and be fixed at such distance therefrom as the thickness ofthe sole or heel-edge may require. The mode of using the part e will readily he understood by shoemakers. Thus we have combined with one handle what is equivalent to several sole-edge nishers as ordinarily made. Instead of arranging the clamp-screw so as to operate against the side of the adjustable block, I have contemplated placing it Within the handle, and so as to act against a saddle-or piece of metal to rest against the lower edge of the block, the same being in' order to crowd the block closeup to the upper edge of the socket orpassage in which it is placed, and thereby there make a close joint, such as will prevent any particles or portions of leather from becoming caught'between the edge f and the top of the said passage. My said edge-finishing tool thus becoine'stwhat maybe termed a universal iinisher,H or one which can he readily adaptedto'the finishing of a soleedge'pt any ordinary thickness. Consequently it dispenses with the employment of the series of sole-edge nishgingitools as commonly constructed, each of which has its separate handle, and is adaptedv to one particular .thickness of sole.

I 'am aware of the invention described in Edam Campbells andWilliam D. Crookers application for a patent filed February 9th, 1857, and subsequently rejected.I Therefore I do not' claim the same as my invention.

My sole-edge linishing tool differs from that oi' the said Campbell d', Crocker in an important particular, productiye df Ia new effect-or advantage; that is to say, they make use of a cylindrical pin with a iiange at either or each'of its ends. But'in carrying out my invention or improvement I make use of a block, not cylindricall, b ut having two opposite plane sides, and two curved sides or polishing edges, f f', which enables me to employ diierent formed flanges, c d, and one or more recesses, e, in the two opposite curved faces, f f', all which cannot be done with the cylindrical pin., `Fnrthermore, the opposite ilat faces ,of my block, A, operate to prevent the block from working loose andirevolving in the carrier, as a cylindrical pin. would he liable to during What, therefore, I claim as my invention or improvement in the adjustable sole-edge finishing tool described,

:is the block A'provided with' opposite dat faces and polishing surfaces, and separate projections, c cl, or the same "and one or more -notches, e,- all substantially as explained.

FRANZ MARTIN SCHMITT. `W1tu esses R. H. EDDY, GEORGE ANDREWS. 

